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August 17, 2010 at 5:19 pm

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A 22-year-old man is in a critical condition and three other people are ill in hospital after allegedly taking drugs at a Belfast nightclub.Police said the four took an unknown substance before becoming ill.
A second man aged 19, a 20-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl were also taken to hospital, but their condition is not life- threatening.
Police have appealed for information about the incident at Myntnight club at Dunbar link in the city.
Officers said the events were a reminder of the dangers of drug use.

Read more: Man critical after ‘club drugs’ – Northern Ireland, Local & National – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Ment to have been that 4 of them collapsed on the dance floor.
I think some of them were friends aswell, not sure.

Scary.
August 17, 2010 at 5:31 pm

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Christ almighty people dont do any favours towards keeping legals highs legal do they
August 17, 2010 at 5:55 pm

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source;IOW gazette

IVORY WAVE KILLS RYDE CHEF
Posted by Jason Kay on 17 August, 2010 – 9:59 am

A YOUNG chef has plunged 300ft to his death from a cliff after taking new killer party drug Ivory Wave.

Michael Bishton, 24, from Ryde was the first person in Britain to die after taking the mind-bending legal high.

In a tragic coincidence, Michael’s body was found at sea only minutes after his fiancee discovered she was pregnant with their second child.

Ivory Wave – dubbed worse than ‘meow meow’ – is being openly sold as ‘soothing’ bath salts for £15 a packet.

The drug – also known as Ivory Coast or Purple Wave – brings euphoria but the high is followed by hallucinations, paranoid delusions and acute agitation that can take three days to wear off.

In recent weeks, dozens of young people have been hospitalised nationwide after dabbling in the drug.

Father-of-one Michael suffered paranoid hallucinations from the drug last Tuesday and took another dose on Thursday.

His mother says that he appeared depressed on Thursday night and claimed he was going to see his doctor before vanishing.

Fiancee Samy Betts, 21, told today how she was frantically trying to phone Michael on Saturday with news of her pregnancy – unaware that he was dead.

In a heartbreaking message at 1.36pm, she asked her Facebook friends: ‘Does anyone know where Mickey is? Is he missing? Just found out I’m three weeks pregnant.”

Shortly after 2pm, his body was spotted in the sea near the Island’s village of Bembridge by a fisherman and retrieved by lifeboat crews and a coastguard helicopter.

Michael was wearing his favourite England top – a replica of John Terry’s number 6 shirt – and shorts and had major injuries consistent with falling from the coastal cliffs.

Police are probing his death but it is not known whether he deliberately jumped or accidentally fell to his death
August 17, 2010 at 8:21 pm

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i didnt do nuttin
August 18, 2010 at 9:57 am

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surprise surprise meow is banned and a more dangerous legal high takes its place

will the government ever learn?
August 18, 2010 at 11:23 am

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General Lighting

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I’m not at all a fan of tinfoil hat theories but I do wonder if right wing Governments deliberately want to keep recreational drug use relatively risky as a way of “demand reduction” and even culling out the more rebellious/hedonistic/impulsive youth as form of “social darwinism”?

TBH this could have happened with regular use of any stimulant drug, its just that cathinones appear to speed up the process a bit particularly the emotional effects on younger people, and greater availability of drugs means people take more (in the same way a lot of people are fat because there is no shortage of food in this country).

bear in mind the young man had just lost his job in the middle of a economic depression in part through his own stupidity, and probably had some idea his missus might have fallen pregnant again and so he’s got an extra mouth to feed. the stress of dealing with the situation alone (even if his partner was relatively forgiving) can be enough to in this case literally push a man over the edge!
August 18, 2010 at 11:28 am

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@General Lighting 395230 wrote:

I’m not at all a fan of tinfoil hat theories but I do wonder if right wing Governments deliberately want to keep recreational drug use relatively risky as a way of “demand reduction” and even culling out the more rebellious/hedonistic/impulsive youth as form of “social darwinism”?

to be honest i wouldnt be surprised, however i doubt they’d be able to keep that policy a secret for long.. governments are notoriously bad at keeping secrets

Or maybe that’s what they want us to think 😉
August 18, 2010 at 11:36 am

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I don’t think its a “secret” at all, the right wing are quite open about their views on this matter, although the Conservative Party are of course less openly rabid about their views than the BNP!

even the “libertarian” right wingers justify drugs legalisation in the context of denying NHS treatment to problematic users and addicts and “just letting them die” instead.

These days the Tories will begrudgingly tolerate a small amount of youthful drug use provided the users stop by their 30s (as ironically their “laissez-faire” approach to trade was a boon to smugglers in the 1980s!) and denounce it publically but they still come out as much more anti-drugs than even the last government which at least flirted with the idea of decriminalisation in the late 1990s..
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